TELECOM Digest     Tue, 21 Feb 95 09:44:00 CST    Volume 15 : Issue 111

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Enhanced Telecommunications Services for New Hampshire (Monty 
Solomon)
    Anon Servers, Child Porn and Scientologists (Johan Helsingius)
    Erlang B Tables (Stephen Morrisby)
    MVIP? What Are We Talking About Here? (Peter T. Overaas)
    Book on ISDN Wanted (Charles Mingus)
    Inquiry on CDMA and QUALCOMM (eswu@v9000.ntu.ac.sg)
    Can You Tell Me About MCK Communications? (intiaa@ozemail.com.au)
    CATV Based WAN (Dominique Gabioud)
    E(TACS) and GSM (Alexander Cerna)

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 00:36:08 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.COM>
Subject: Enhanced Telecommunications Services for New Hampshire
Reply-To: monty@roscom.COM


Forwarded FYI to the Digest.

  From: "Lee D. Rothstein" <ldr@VeriTech.com>
  Subject: Enhanced Telecommunications Services for New Hampshire
  Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
  Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 19:25:32 GMT

[Disclaimer
********** 

The text below was intended to be a press release.  It was written by
Lee Rothstein, of VeriTech, with the help of Tim Platt, of Orr and
Reno.  The views expressed in the release can only be ascribed to Lee
Rothstein.  Because there was not time to poll the members to
determine the extent of agreement, on both the bill and the press
release, the release has not been issued, as yet, by the Consortium.

The bill, however, goes before Senate Committee, Thursday.  If you
are a Member of the Consortium or attend the meetings, please
contact Lee Rothstein with your views.  Whether or not you attend
NHTC meetings, please contact your New Hampshire State Senator to
indicate your support for law and other efforts that foster
Internet availability, accessibility and bandwidth in New Hampshire.]

       ======================================================
       Enhanced Telecommunications Services for New Hampshire
       ======================================================

February 7, 1995, Concord, NH.  The New Hampshire Telecommunications
Consortium (NHTC) is committed to bringing advanced telecommunications
infrastructure and enhanced services to the State of New Hampshire.
The time is right for this effort.  Many people speak of the
"super-information highway" vision.  Even more people, companies and
institutions participate in, and contribute to the ballistic growth of
the Global Internet.  Consequently, the NHTC believes that proactive
steps must be taken by government, business and the community to
ensure that New Hampshire has sufficient, powerful and economical
access to enhanced telecommunications services at the earliest
possible opportunity.

Such efforts will ensure the well-being of the State in economic,
education, health, safety, and social areas.  Special efforts are
required because, on the one hand, New Hampshire must compete in the
global economy, but on the other hand, we are a sparsely populated and
small state that wishes to maintain our high quality of life and
environment.

To this end, some of the telecommunications consumer members of NHTC
have proposed a bill that would change the telecommunications
regulatory climate in New Hampshire so that citizens and institutions
of the State can benefit from these enhanced services.

The draft of the bill was composed by Tim Platt of Orr & Reno, at the
request of the NH BIA.  We are very grateful to Tim for his efforts on
behalf of the Consortium.  Specifically, the bill is aimed at
increasing competition for delivery of these enhanced services.  This,
in turn, will allow the State, it's institutions and citizens to
remain competitive with other forward-looking states and regions that
are well-along this process of fostering advanced telecommunications
infrastructure and enhanced services.  The proposed bill (NH Senate
Bill 22) has been sponsored by State Senator Beverly T.  Rodeschin of
Newport (Senate District 8).  Ms.

Rodeschin is a member of the Economic Development Committee. 

Senator Rodeschin's home phone number is 863-1941.  The Chair of the
Committee is Carl R.  Johnson of Meredith (Senate District 3).  His
legislature phone number is 279-3177.  His home phone number is
279-6492.  If you would like to call the senator of your home
district, please call the New Hampshire Business and Industry
Association at 1-800-540-5388 for further information.

Senate Bill 22 maintains traditional distinctions between telephone
companies and telecommunications suppliers (the former being a subset
of the latter), and between basic and enhanced services.

Basic services include most services that we commonly think of as
involving the telephone for dial-up voice, fax and data (modem)
communications.  Enhanced services include data, video and imaging
services, especially when they make use of high speed digital
infrastructure.  The bill is specifically directed at improving
advanced telecommunications infrastructure and the pricing,
availability, and competitiveness of enhanced telecommunications
services.

The bill, as drafted, promotes telecommunications infrastructure
investment in three different ways: The first option would allow
telecommunications service providers (inclusive of telephone
companies) to make investments in technologically advanced
infrastructures without regulation as to price of the service based on
these infrastructures.  This would allow access and usage of enhanced
services at substantial discounts to current telephone rates.  The
second feature of the bill encourages telecommunications service
providers to work with businesses, institutions and the community to
develop pilot projects that satisfy the needs of institutions and
individuals.  Infrastructure developed as part of a pilot project
should also be offered at a discount, and, if made by a telephone
company, may be included as part of the rate base infrastructure, if a
telephone company makes such request.  The third option would allow
telephone companies to treat such investments as part of their
existing networks, if they elected to do so.  Pricing under this third
option would be based on traditional tariff filings.

The NHTC believes that efforts such as the proposed Senate Bill 22
will be absolutely essential to the well being of New Hampshire, her
institutions and citizens.

Senate Bill 22 comes up for committee hearing on February 9, 1995
before the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee.
The NHTC encourages all interested parties to contact their senators
and representatives expressing their support for the bill.  While
Senate Bill 22 may not be a perfect vehicle for bringing New Hampshire
into the age of the Global Internet and the Information Superhighway,
it can be an effective first step in bringing enhanced 
telecommunications 
services to New Hampshire, quickly.  Both comments and amendments that
will get New Hampshire on the right path, quickly, are invited.

The New Hampshire Telecommunications Consortium is composed of
business and community organizations dedicated to bringing the super
information highway, in all of its forms, to New Hampshire.  Members
include large telecommunications users, providers and other business
groups.  Members include:

  AT&T
  Continental Cablevision
  Exeter Hospital
  Granite State Telephone
  Lakes Region General Hospital
  New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters
  New Hampshire Business and Industry Association
  New Hampshire Department of Education
  New Hampshire Hospital Association
  New Hampshire Public Radio
  New Hampshire Public Television
  NYNEX
  Orr & Reno, Professional Association
  VeriTech, network information technology consultants

[Listing above does NOT imply agreement with either the bill or the
release.]


<> Lee D. Rothstein | LDR@VeriTech.com | 603-424-2900 | Fax: 603-424-
8549 <>
   <> VeriTech | 7 Merrymeeting Drive | Merrimack, NH  03054-2934 | USA 
<>
         <> Information Technology (IT) Verification & Leadership <>

------------------------------

From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.fi>
Subject: Anon Servers, Child Porn and Scientologists
Date: 21 Feb 1995 06:38:31 GMT


Press release, Monday, February 20th, 1995
Helsinki, Finland

World-wide Internet community appalled over the Scientology seizure
         Was the child porn scandal just a cover?

The reputation of Finland as a country that holds freedom of
expression, justice and human rights in high esteem has suffered among
the world-wide Internet community.  So far Finland has gotten a lot of
positive publicity as the home of the best-known anonymous server,
anon.penet.fi.  These servers enable safe net discussion of sensitive
issues, such as reporting violations of human rights.

The ease with which the Church Of Scientology (with the help of
Finnish police) obtained sensitive information has caused great
concern and uproar. With the help of the finnish police, the Church Of
Scientology found out the identity of a person who had published
material on the Church of Scientology anonymously on the Usenet
newsgroups. At the same time there has been a lot of speculation on
the net on whether the recent child porn scandal (which was totally
unsupported by hard evidence) might be connected to the
Scientologists' interest in the anonymous server.

      ___________________________________

Anonymous servers enable anonymous discussions via electronic mail and
newsgroups on the Internet, used by millions of people all over the
world, and are vital for support of freedom of expression. These
servers are used by people who are under pressure or persecuted,
people who report offenses of human rights or even discuss their
personal problems and sufferings.

One of the longest-lasting and probably the most famous anonymous
server is anon.penet.fi, created by the Finnish Internet specialist
Johan "Julf" Helsingius back in 1992. Every day more than 7000
messages are automatically handled by the service, and there are over
200 000 registered users.  The popularity of the server is largely due
to its trustworthiness, based on both the personal reputation of
Helsingius among the network community, as well as on the good
reputation of Finland as a country where individual rights, privacy
and freedom of expression are respected.

This kind of reputation is important, since there are lots of people
and organisations in the world that would rather see the anon servers
being shut down.  Governments that violate human rights, as well as
other organizations banning public and open discussion of their
activities, such as the Church of Scientology, are among these. The
Church of Scientology has in fact approached the people offering
anonymity services, threatening with lawsuits unless the anonymous
discussion in scientology-related newsgroups stops.  In fear of
lawsuits many American servers have either stopped altogether or
strongly limited their activities.

The flow of events:

On Thursday, February 2, an American representative of the Church of
Scientology (CoS) contacted Johan Helsingius, informing him that some
information residing on a private and closed CoS system had been made
public via the anon.penet.fi server. Based on this they have reported
a burglary to the Los Angeles Police and FBI.  The representative of
CoS asked Helsingius for the real identity of the individual that had
posted the confidential information. After Helsingius had made it
clear that he was in no position to give out the information, he was
told an official request to the Finnish Police was on its way via
Interpol.  The next day, February 3, the Finnish police contacted
Helsingius, informing him that if need be, they would get a warrant of
search and seizure.  The necessary documents for these actions were
promised for Monday.

On Monday, February 6, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published
an article based on the investigation of Mats Wiklund from University
of Stockholm.  The article stated that child porn was distributed to
Internet from the Finnish anon.penet.fi server.  The Finnish media
picked up the story, with headlines such as "Internet distributes
child porn from an address in Helsinki" (Helsingin Sanomat) and
"Internet flooded with child porn" (Ilta-Sanomat).  The first public
reaction in Finland was based purely on the initial article in Dagens
Nyheter.

Meantime, the Internet community started to investigate the matter.
The child porn statements caused amazement, as the anon server has
(due to heavy traffic) been forced to limit the maximum size of
messages, and ban postings to groups containing pictures altogether.
At closer look the Wiklund "research" is revealed to have been made
sloppily and without enough expertise.

The information needed to reveal the sender of the articles has not
been saved, and the famous pictures themselves are nowhere to be
obtained for a closer look.  The only picture that is actually included
in Wiklund's report seems to be taken on a nudist camp.

Wiklund has investigated four newsgroups dealing with sexual pictures,
checked 5651 postings and found 8 pictures of adolescent nude
children, none of which are (according to Wiklund's own report)
actually pornographic. After a closer look at the pictures in those
groups, they are shown to actually come from United Kingdom, not
Finland.  Wiklund admits that he never thought of the possibility of
the source of the pictures being forged.  On Saturday, February 11,
Johan Helsingius reveals the true nature of events and the headlines
in Finnish media quiet down.

On the Internet there follows a lot of lively discussion and
questioning of the motives of the Swedish researcher, the person who
forged the source of the pictures, and the journalist of Dagens
Nyheter.  Some writers suggest a connection to the attempts by the CoS
to silence anon servers.  Since the authorities don't seem to be
investigating the case, Helsingius himself files a request for
investigation with the Finnish police. The initial investigation
reveals no crime committed at least in Finland.

In the meantime, on February 8, the Finnish police serve Helsingius
with a warrant for search and seizure, and obtains from Helsingius the
electronic mail address of the anonymous user that the CoS wants.
Within an hour after the Finnish Police gets hold of the information,
the Finnish representative of the CoS informs Helsingius legal
representative that they received the information.

On 14 February the criminal investigation on the scientologists case
is dropped.  Helsingius gets this information on February 17, and
reveals the situation on some discussion groups and mailing lists on
the Internet.  This announcement has caused a flood of electronic
mail, and a huge outroar among the Internet community.

During the weekend, Helsingius received hundreds of comments and
queries, most of them questioning the actions of the Finnish
authorities.

February 19 the maintainer of an anonymous service in Amsterdam tells
Helsingius that the Church of Scientology has approached him again,
threatening with legal action unless the anonymous participation into
the discussion on scientology is stopped.  This time the issue would
be claims about illicit distribution of copies of copyrighted computer
programs.

                       -----------------------

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Those Scientology people are very 
strange.
So was L. Ron Hubbard, their founder for that matter. Originally an 
author
of mostly science fiction books, in 1949 Hubbard went to a convention of
science fiction writers and made the comment that real money in the 
world
was not to be made writing books. "If you really want to make lots of 
money
start a church ..." he said. Well, we know that much is true, I've 
thought
a couple times about starting one myself. Hubbard then wrote a book 
called
"Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" which seems to have 
sold
quite well (he has been dead for a few years but the book is still in
print) and from that publication came the Church of Scientology. They
have always been very agressive about getting their way and they don't
hesitate to sue or otherwise harass anyone who writes an expose of their
activities. With Auditors and Engrams and their infamous E-Meter (a 
device which measures Engrams!) they'll clear you of whatever is wrong
in your thinking processes. Several years ago I read a few things about
their tactics toward their perceived enemies. I'm not surprised they
are now turning their attention to Internet. 

The comments by Helsingius sort of confirm what I said here the other
day where remailers are concerned: they do have records of who says
what, and will keep them for use as necessary. He went the full measure
and required the authorities to produce a warrant before turning over
the information they sought, and that is admirable. But when I was doing
the same thing with postal mail years ago, the other fellows I knew in
the same business used to take a somewhat more practical view. The 


attitude was (regards postal inspectors, police, etc) we have to live
with those guys all the time. If you know that in fact to get a warrant
all they have to do is go ask a judge for one and they'll be back in
a few minutes or a day or so later, then give them what they want and
save time for everyone. Some will even call on the phone to request a
warrant and have it delivered five minutes later over your fax machine!
Then they look at you with some disdain as if to say "old pros like
you and I need not waste a lot of time on preliminaries, or the opening
exercises." I hope Helsingius afterward at least notified his user that
there had been inquiries made. That's a courteous thing to do.   PAT]

------------------------------

From: smorrisby@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Stephen Morrisby")
Subject: Erlang B Tables
Organization: Millicom Ghana Limited
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 11:52:06 GMT


Can anyone provide me with the formulae used to calculate Erlang B
Tables?


Thanks,

Steve Morrisby

------------------------------

From: Peter T. Overaas <ptov@chevron.com>
Subject: MVIP? What Are We Talking About Here?
Organization: chevron
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:08:23 GMT


Can anyone explain what the acronym "MVIP" stands for?  I heard this in
a discussion on IVR.  


Thanks, 

Pete


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Once again a reminder that the Telecom 
Archives (anonymous ftp lcs.mit.edu) contains several glossary files
in the /glossaries sub-directory. Check them out.      PAT]

------------------------------

From: logic@li.net (Charles Mingus)
Subject: Book on ISDN Wanted
Date: 21 Feb 1995 00:11:13 -0500
Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network)


I am currently looking for a book that will give a detailed description 
of ISDN lines and their uses.  I don't know if such a book exists but
it would be of great use to me.


logic@linet01.li.net


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Ummm, I think we have a few peopl around
here who have written books on ISDN, don't we Fred G?  Maybe someone
can make contact with Mingus and answer his questions.   PAT]

------------------------------

From: eswu@v9000.ntu.ac.sg
Subject: Inquiry on CDMA and QUALCOMM
Date: 20 Feb 95 17:33:29 +0800
Organization: Nanyang Technological University


Hello everyone, I have a project on CDMA.

I would appreciate if anyone can give me the following information:

1) Where to get the IS-95?
   In what periodical and in which volume?
   Or where to buy?
 
2) Where to get the published materials on CDMA designed by QUALCOMM?
   I have heard that QUALCOMM has designed a CDMA system, but I still
   did not find any wirtten material on it.


Thanks in advance.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:41:39 +1100
From: intiaa@ozemail.com.au (Internet Industry Association of Australia)
Subject: Can You Tell me About MCK Communications?
Organization: Internet Industry Association of Australia (INTIAA)


Dear Pat,

A company in Calgary, Alberta called MCK Communications make a black
box that enables a Northern Telecom Meridian handset talk to the
switch over a POTS and have full functionality as well, a kind of
virtual extension.

MCK are not in the phone book. Maybe you can find this out and drop me
a line.


Cheers, 

Geoff

------------------------------

From: gabioud@uni2a.unige.ch
Subject: CATV Based WAN
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 12:45:38 GMT


It is planned to install a return channel (between 20 MHz and 50 MHz)
on a cable TV network.

We want to offer a LAN interconnection service supported by this
upgraded CATV network. Our idea is to install a Token Bus like network
on parts of the CATV net, with point-to-point links between Token Bus
islands.

Three questions about this project:

1. Do you know the existence of a LAN interconnection service based on
   the CATV cable?

2. Do you know equipment that can be used for such a service?

3. Token Bus (IEEE 802.4) equipments can not be used directly, because
   the IEEE 802.4 normalized frequencies are not free. Can I 
nevertheless 
   use these equipments with just an external remodulator to make the 
   signal fit in free bandwiths on the TV cable?


Sincerely yours,

Dominique Gabioud    gabioud@uni2a.unige.ch

------------------------------

Reply-To: Alexander Cerna <cerna@ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp>
Subject: E(TACS) and GSM
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 10:06:10 +0800
From: Alexander Cerna <cerna@ntps5.ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp>


Can someone explain to me what E(TACS) and GSM are in detail?  There
are around five cellular phone service providers in our country, and
most of them use E(TACS).  One uses GSM, and says that this is the
latest technology in cellular telephony.  They say that it would make
international roaming possible (although they say that it isn't
possible right now).

Also, this service provider that uses GSM says that they're the only
provider that's 100% digital.  One of the implications of this, they
claim, is that their phones can't be cloned as easily as the analog
ones.  Is this true?  Also, they say that analog systems are very
prone to charge errors.  Is this also true?  Or are they just trying
to scare me from going to the other service providers?

Thank you very much.


Regards,

Alexander Cerna      cerna@ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp       VOX: +63 (32) 400-
451
NEC Technologies     MEPZ, Lapulapu, Phils 6015     FAX: +63 (32) 400-
457

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@FROM   :telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu                                   
(Continued from last message)
attitude was (regards postal inspectors, police, etc) we have to live
with those guys all the time. If you know that in fact to get a warrant
all they have to do is go ask a judge for one and they'll be back in
a few minutes or a day or so later, then give them what they want and
save time for everyone. Some will even call on the phone to request a
warrant and have it delivered five minutes later over your fax machine!
Then they look at you with some disdain as if to say "old pros like
you and I need not waste a lot of time on preliminaries, or the opening
exercises." I hope Helsingius afterward at least notified his user that
there had been inquiries made. That's a courteous thing to do.   PAT]

------------------------------

From: smorrisby@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Stephen Morrisby")
Subject: Erlang B Tables
Organization: Millicom Ghana Limited
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 11:52:06 GMT


Can anyone provide me with the formulae used to calculate Erlang B
Tables?


Thanks,

Steve Morrisby

------------------------------

From: Peter T. Overaas <ptov@chevron.com>
Subject: MVIP? What Are We Talking About Here?
Organization: chevron
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:08:23 GMT


Can anyone explain what the acronym "MVIP" stands for?  I heard this in
a discussion on IVR.  


Thanks, 

Pete


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Once again a reminder that the Telecom 
Archives (anonymous ftp lcs.mit.edu) contains several glossary files
in the /glossaries sub-directory. Check them out.      PAT]

------------------------------

From: logic@li.net (Charles Mingus)
Subject: Book on ISDN Wanted
Date: 21 Feb 1995 00:11:13 -0500
Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network)


I am currently looking for a book that will give a detailed description 
of ISDN lines and their uses.  I don't know if such a book exists but
it would be of great use to me.


logic@linet01.li.net


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Ummm, I think we have a few peopl around
here who have written books on ISDN, don't we Fred G?  Maybe someone
can make contact with Mingus and answer his questions.   PAT]

------------------------------

From: eswu@v9000.ntu.ac.sg
Subject: Inquiry on CDMA and QUALCOMM
Date: 20 Feb 95 17:33:29 +0800
Organization: Nanyang Technological University


Hello everyone, I have a project on CDMA.

I would appreciate if anyone can give me the following information:

1) Where to get the IS-95?
   In what periodical and in which volume?
   Or where to buy?
 
2) Where to get the published materials on CDMA designed by QUALCOMM?
   I have heard that QUALCOMM has designed a CDMA system, but I still
   did not find any wirtten material on it.


Thanks in advance.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:41:39 +1100
From: intiaa@ozemail.com.au (Internet Industry Association of Australia)
Subject: Can You Tell me About MCK Communications?
Organization: Internet Industry Association of Australia (INTIAA)


Dear Pat,

A company in Calgary, Alberta called MCK Communications make a black
box that enables a Northern Telecom Meridian handset talk to the
switch over a POTS and have full functionality as well, a kind of
virtual extension.

MCK are not in the phone book. Maybe you can find this out and drop me
a line.


Cheers, 

Geoff

------------------------------

From: gabioud@uni2a.unige.ch
Subject: CATV Based WAN
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 12:45:38 GMT


It is planned to install a return channel (between 20 MHz and 50 MHz)
on a cable TV network.

We want to offer a LAN interconnection service supported by this
upgraded CATV network. Our idea is to install a Token Bus like network
on parts of the CATV net, with point-to-point links between Token Bus
islands.

Three questions about this project:

1. Do you know the existence of a LAN interconnection service based on
   the CATV cable?

2. Do you know equipment that can be used for such a service?

3. Token Bus (IEEE 802.4) equipments can not be used directly, because
   the IEEE 802.4 normalized frequencies are not free. Can I 
nevertheless 
   use these equipments with just an external remodulator to make the 
   signal fit in free bandwiths on the TV cable?


Sincerely yours,

Dominique Gabioud    gabioud@uni2a.unige.ch

------------------------------

Reply-To: Alexander Cerna <cerna@ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp>
Subject: E(TACS) and GSM
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 10:06:10 +0800
From: Alexander Cerna <cerna@ntps5.ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp>


Can someone explain to me what E(TACS) and GSM are in detail?  There
are around five cellular phone service providers in our country, and
most of them use E(TACS).  One uses GSM, and says that this is the
latest technology in cellular telephony.  They say that it would make
international roaming possible (although they say that it isn't
possible right now).

Also, this service provider that uses GSM says that they're the only
provider that's 100% digital.  One of the implications of this, they
claim, is that their phones can't be cloned as easily as the analog
ones.  Is this true?  Also, they say that analog systems are very
prone to charge errors.  Is this also true?  Or are they just trying
to scare me from going to the other service providers?

Thank you very much.


Regards,

Alexander Cerna      cerna@ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp       VOX: +63 (32) 400-
451
NEC Technologies     MEPZ, Lapulapu, Phils 6015     FAX: +63 (32) 400-
457

------------------------------

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